The Festival of Nature, the biggest free event of its kind in the country, comes back in Bath and Bristol this weekend after a reduced programme last year. The week-long festival, which runs from this Saturday, June 5, to the following Saturday, will include a multitude of virtual and in-person events along with the...
Bath-headquartered global engineering consultancy Buro Happold has helped transform the basement of a 1970s Bristol office block into the UK’s highest-rated employee cycle area. Castlemead, at 18-storeys Bristol’s tallest commercial building, is undergoing a £2.1m refurbishment, partly to prepare it for a commuting revolution likely to be sparked by the introduction of the city’s Clean Air...
Three Bath area firms have been named among the best companies to work for in the South West. The UK’s first digital green energy supplier Pure Planet and housing group Curo – both based in Bath – and Chippenham-based Good Energy, also a renewable energy firm, are included in the latest Best Company to...
An art trail displaying paintings, sculptures and photography in empty shop windows on the theme of nature and climate change is to launch next week to coincide with World Environment Day. The Trowbridge Windows on Nature trail will highlight the devastating fact that a quarter of British mammals are at risk of extinction and 80%...
A business support programme showing how small and medium-sized firms can benefit from sustainable innovation has been launched by world-leading business incubator SETsquared and the University of Bath. The three-year programme, which has been funded by the European Regional Development and available for firms based in the West of England, is aimed at firms...
Bath-based landscape architecture firm Grant Associates, which last week unveiled its design for this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, has been appointed to a major regeneration scheme also in West London. The long-anticipated waterfront Brentford Project aims to revitalise the suburb’s centre and establish a new retail, leisure and culinary scene, building on its rich...
A University of Bath research group that has helped alter attitudes towards the global tobacco industry and drive changes in government policies has been recognised for its work by the director-general of the World Health Organization. The Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG) has exposed the industry’s attempts to weaken, block and delay tobacco control...
Britain’s largest organic dairy brand Yeo Valley is benefitting from an ultra-fast, ultra-reliable full-fibre broadband service across its multiple rural sites thanks to Bath-based broadband provider Truespeed. Family-owned Yeo Valley, best known for its range of organic yogurts, previously relied on no slow, unreliable copper (ADSL) phone lines for its broadband needs. Now, after...
The opportunities for business growth and expansion through trade are huge. If you're thinking about trading with the EU and other markets, or want to continue trading, there are rules you need to follow for importing and exporting. It can be overwhelming, but the West of England Combined Authority’s Growth Hub is here to...
The chief executive of Future, the fast-growing Bath specialist media group, has praised the agility of its staff after it defied the publishing sector’s gloom to post an 110% increase in half-year pre-tax profits. The highly diversified and acquisitive group, whose titles span TechRadar, PC Gamer and Country Life, achieved the £56.9m profits on sales up 89%...
